Avidin-Biotin Interactions: Methods and Applications (Hardcover)

Table of Contents Preface....................................................................................Robert J. McMahon Preparation of avidin conjugates........................... Rosaria Haugland and Mahesh Bhalgat Coupling of antibodies with biotin.................................Rosaria Haugland and Wendy You Optimization of detection and quantification of proteins on membranes in very high and very low abundance using avidin and streptavidin.........................Sara R. Zwart and Brandon J. Lewis Use of the Avidin (Imino)biotin System as a general approach to affinity precipitation.................................................................Ruth Freitag and Frank Hilbrig Capturing biotinylated proteins and peptides by avidin functional affinity electrophoresis.........................................................................................Bao-Shiang Lee, Sangeeth Krishnanchettiar, Syed Salman Lateef, and Shalini Gupta Functionality Screening of Streptavidin Mutants by Non-Denaturing SDS-PAGE Using Biotin-4-Fluorescein........................................................Nicolas Humbert and Thomas R. Ward Application of biotin-4-fluorescein in homogeneous fluorescence assays for avidin, streptavidin, and biotin or biotin derivatives..................................................Andreas Ebner, Markus Marek, Karl Kaiser, Gerald Kada, Christoph D. Hahn, Bernd Lackner, and Hermann J. Gruber Quantitative recovery of biotinylated proteins from streptavidin-based affinity chromatography resins................................Christoph Rosli, Jascha-N. Rybak, Dario Neri, and Giuliano Elia High yield production and purification of recombinant T7-tag-mature-streptavidin in glucose stressed E. coli....Nicolas Humbert, Peter Schurmann, Andrea Zocchi, Jean-Marc Neuhaus and Thomas R. Ward Endogenous biotin in rat brain: implications for false-positive resultswith avidin- and streptavidin-biotin techniques..Bruce E. McKay, Michael L. Molineux, and Ray W. Turner Pseudo-Immunolabelling with the Avidin-Biotin-Peroxidase Complex (ABC) due to the presence of Endogenous Biotin in the Retina.....Willem Kamphuis and Jan Klooster Use of synthetic peptides for identifying biotinylation sites in human histones............Gabriela Camporeale, Yap Ching Chew, Alice Keuh, Gautam Sarath and Janos Zempleni Detection and quantitation of DNA methylation using a biotin/avidin microplate assay...Kirsten Liebert and Albert Jeltsch Anti-biotin antibodies offer superior organelle-specific labeling of mitochondria over avidin or streptavidin.................................Elisabeth D. Coene, Michael K. Shaw, and David J. Vaux Mammalian lectin as a tool in glycol- and histochemistry with relevance for diagnostic procedure............................................................Karel Smetana, Jr. and Sabine Andre A multiplex approach to isotyping antigen-specific antibodies using biotinylated antigen/streptavidin-phycoerythrin................................. Anna Bogusiewicz